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Submissio(u)n, Summissioun, n. [Late ME and e.m.E. submission (1411), summission (1563), OF submission (14th c. in Larousse), L. submissiōn-, summissiōn-, f. sub-, summittere Submit v.]
1. In law: A contract by which parties in dispute agree to submit their dispute to arbitration; also, the document embodying this.(a) 1580 Reg. Privy C. III 278.
[In respect of] the submissioun maid and aggreit upoun … anent materis questionabill betuix thame 1582 Misc. Spald. C. II 337.
That be the ordiner remeid of reductioun I be reponit in the formair estait quhairin I wes befoir the submissioun 1591 Edinburgh Testaments XXIII 363.
Conforme to ane submissioun & decreit put in the handis of James Cochrane 1597 Misc. Spald. C. II lx.
The Erle Huntlie subscryuit ane submissioun betuix his lordship & the Lorde Forbes, to berrying all querrellis and deadlie feadis betuix thame twa to Patrick Murray [etc.] 1607 Peebles Gleanings 9.
The haill counsall … considdering that the submissioun was desert and na decreit, is resolvit … na wayes to submitt thair heritage to trysting 1611 Scrymgeour Invent. 11.
Ane submissioun past betuix the said Mr. Richard Strang and his spous anent the proffeittis of the saidis landis of Hilfeild 1630 Acts Sederunt ii 41.
A great number of our subjectis … have subscryvit to us generall submissiouns a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 63.
The lords fand ane submission null, becaus it wes only subscryvit be ane nottar 1664 Decis. Lords G. 77.
There being a submission betwixt the parties, decreet arbitral is pronunced 1681 Stair Inst. iv xxxix § 14.
Arbiters … whose sentences have legal execution only by virtue of the clause of registration in the submission and at the end of the blank on the other side thereof wherein the decreet-arbitral is to be filled up(b) 1424 Lanark & R. 283.
Thai sal put it to the determinaciovn and the summissiovn of the xii personis and the owre man
b. ? A written request for some action to be implemented. 1605 Laing MSS 103.
The brethring of the presbyterie understanding that … be ane submission mead and subscrybed be my Lord of Skoon … ther is … ane local stipend to be assigned to everie kirk [etc.]
2. (The action of) submitting, yielding (to an authority). 1700 Rothesay Par. Rec. 133.
The minister … finds them verie inclinable to all submission to the Session 1706 Rothesay Par. Rec. 202.
[He] promises cheerfull submission to the Session and their appointments about him
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